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How to Take Great Photos While Surrounded by Chinese Smog
AFP/Getty Images If you can’t beat it, photograph it. With choking smog once again descending upon China’s northeastern cities, that seems to be the message of an anonymousarticle widely reposted...
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Do Chinese NIMBY Protests Actually Work?
China’s nascent NIMBY, or not-in-my-back-yard, protest movement appears to have racked up the latest in a string of wins as authorities in the eastern city of Yuhang said May 10 they would suspend...
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Chinese Authorities’ Tough Sell: Paraxylene
On the morning of March 30, hundreds of residents of Maoming, a medium-sized city in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, hit the streets to protest a proposed expansion to an existing...
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Why Is The Big Bang Theory Big in China?
(via Weibo/Fair Use) When producers at U.S. network CBS launched a show in 2007 chronicling the daily lives and dating woes of four nerdy California Institute of Technology scientists and their cute...
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State Media Lauds ‘Five Surprising Benefits’ of Pollution, Chinese Unamused
(Getty Images) Polluted air is a fact of life for many Chinese citizens, and it’s currently smothering parts of the country — but that’s not all bad, according to one state media outlet’s...
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Fact-checking Citizen Critiques of China’s Giant Dam
The Three Gorges Dam at the Yangtze River as evening approaches. (Via Bigstockphoto) Provinces along China’s lower Yangtze River have recently suffered through a record heat wave and the worst drought...
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Views from the Factory: What Do Chinese Manufacturers Really Think About...
(Via Flickr/二泉印月) When I visited Mr. Liang’s LED factory in Zhejiang, I saw a building with so many machines that it made my head whirl. I asked Mr. Liang about how he thought his factory was doing...
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Experts, Activists Call Proposed Amendment to China’s Environment Law...
(via Flickr/@A China) One new provision in the second draft of China’s Amendment of Environmental Law has caught the public’s attention. According to the draft, an organization with deep government...
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NIMBY Protest in Pearl River Delta — Will Government Relent, Again?
[Update: On July 13, the local government announced that the uranium processing plant project will not proceed without public support.] Residents of Jiangmen, a medium-size city near Guangzhou, took to...
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Despite Risks, Chinese ‘Go West’— To Ghana’s Gold Mines
The entrance to a gold mine in Ghana (via Bigstockphoto) In March 2013, Xi Jinping visited three African countries – Tanzania, South Africa, and Republic of the Congo – during his first trip abroad as...
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Can Green and Red Coexist? How Tibet’s Environmental Challenges Have Become...
(via Bigstockphoto) “Tibet is still a very sensitive topic, even if your story is about the environment and not politics,” said an editor, who prefers to remain unnamed, of the environmental section of...
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The Long Battle Over China’s ‘White Pollution’
Styrofoam portage in Shanghai. (sansumbrella/Flickr) In the past weeks, Chinese citizens have learnt that the styrofoam boxes from which they eat their lunches will soon be legal. On February 16, the...
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China’s Organic Food Cooperatives Must Overcome Trust Deficit
(Via Bigstockphoto) Until recently, Chen Tao (@陈涛哥在成都) worked at Alibaba, a Chinese Internet company, as an in-house censor deleting inappropriate postings. Now, he drives six hours every weekend from...
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Chinese Peasants to Local EPA: Drink This Nasty Water
(Via Bigstockphoto) The move is bold, inspired, and desperate. According to photos posted by a local journalist named He Guangwei (@何光伟) on Sina Weibo, China’s main micro-blogging platform, peasants...
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Chinese State Media Shares Powerful Map of ‘Cancer Villages’ Creeping Inland
This map recently appeared in the Global Times’ Weibo feed, and has been shared over 700 times since. (Via Weibo) This article also appears on ChinaFile, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. It appears that...
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Interactive Maps of China’s Most–and Least–Polluted Places
Nearly five weeks ago, Beijing experienced its worst day of air quality on record: Levels of PM2.5 — small particulates that can cause lung, cardiovascular and respiratory disease — soared to more than...
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Chinese Activist Web Users Take Aim at Water Pollution, and Censors Strike Back
An earlier image of red water pollution in Lukang river. (Changhua Coast Conservation Action/Flickr Smog isn’t the only kind of pollution making headlines in China. Environmental activist Deng Fei...
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In Chinese Capital, New Year’s Tradition and Pollution Concerns Collide With...
Two men in Henan province dart away after lighting firecrackers. (Joshua Drew Vaughn/Flickr) Among all the ancient traditions that Chinese people observe during the lunar New Year, setting off...
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Plans for Nu River Dam a Setback for Chinese Environmental Transparency
The Nu River Valley. The name literally translates as “angry river.” (International Rivers/Flickr) The phrase “Ecological Civilization,” meant to describe a balance between economic development and...
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Where Does Beijing’s Pollution Come From?
In January alone, a stifling and noxious haze twice enveloped the Chinese capital of Beijing, pushing air quality indexes literally off the charts and inciting widespread outrage both on-line and off....
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